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  • 10189535166515094763544724322811155PublicAssets/3497Wound healing requires the action of stem cells. In mice that lack the Sept2/ARTS gene, stem cells involved in wound healing live longer and wounds heal faster and more thoroughly than in normal mice. This confocal microscopy image from a mouse lacking the Sept2/ARTS gene shows a tail wound in the process of healing. See more information in the article in <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/286.abstract">Science</a>. <br<</br>Related to images <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=3498">3498</a> and <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=3500">3500</a>.Hermann Steller, Rockefeller UniversityThe photo was taken by Yaron Fuchs and Samara Brown. Fuchs is a postdoctoral fellow in Hermann Steller's lab and Brown is the lab's Research Technician III.Photograph

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    Wound healing requires the action of stem cells. In mice that lack the Sept2/ARTS gene, stem cells involved in wound healing live longer and wounds heal faster and more thoroughly than in normal mice. This confocal microscopy image from a mouse lacking the Sept2/ARTS gene shows a tail wound in the process of healing. See more information in the article in Science. Related to images 3498 and 3500.

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    Hermann Steller, Rockefeller University

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    The photo was taken by Yaron Fuchs and Samara Brown. Fuchs is a postdoctoral fellow in Hermann Steller's lab and Brown is the lab's Research Technician III.

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